https://news247.co.in News247: IT industry news for Indian IT professionals en-gb Copyright:(C) 2010 news247.co.in, https://news247.co.in https://news247.co.in/ https://news247.co.in/images/news247logo.jpg https://news247.co.in Microsoft opened a new 1.54 lakh sq ft facility at Bangalore today. The facility will house over 200 engineers belonging to the Bangalore Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) team that contributes to Microsoft Corps adCenter technologies and researchers from Microsoft Research India. In 2009, Yahoo! Inc and Microsoft Corporation, US, announced a https://news247.co.in/news/2011/07/27/Microsoft-opens-new-R-D-facility-in-Bangalore.html https://news247.co.in/news/2011/07/27/Microsoft-opens-new-R-D-facility-in-Bangalore.html Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:41:31 +0530 A major union may call industrial action over HPs outsourcing of 200 government IT support jobs from UK sites to Bangalore in India. The affected workers, at sites in Lytham St Annes, Newcastle and Sheffield, provide IT support to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). On Friday, the Public and https://news247.co.in/news/2011/06/10/HP-UK-faces-union-protest-over-plan-to-transfer-jobs-to-Bangalore.html https://news247.co.in/news/2011/06/10/HP-UK-faces-union-protest-over-plan-to-transfer-jobs-to-Bangalore.html Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:31:43 +0530 Assocham says Bangalore may lose its crown of Indias Tech Eden to Gurgaon and Noida in the national capital region which are steadily becoming preferred destinations for companies offering IT, ITeS, BPO, BTO and KPO services. But many beg to differ, with valid reasons. Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO of Infosys Technologies, https://news247.co.in/news/2011/06/03/North-or-South-Bangalore-is-the-best-says-Kris-Gopalakrishnan.html https://news247.co.in/news/2011/06/03/North-or-South-Bangalore-is-the-best-says-Kris-Gopalakrishnan.html Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:38:12 +0530 Bengaluru may not remain Indias Silicon Valley for too long owing to its crumbling infrastructure and associated woes, says an Assocham study. According to the survey, nearly 55% of the IT companies based in Bengaluru are relocating their India headquarters to other cities of the country. The capital of Karnataka and for https://news247.co.in/news/2011/05/31/New-Delhi-region-may-overtake-Bangalore-as-IT-capital.html https://news247.co.in/news/2011/05/31/New-Delhi-region-may-overtake-Bangalore-as-IT-capital.html Tue, 31 May 2011 14:57:44 +0530 Global Internet search engine Google Thursday announced plans to offer street view of Indian cities on its maps platform. “We are launching the street view project from Bangalore as it is the IT capital of India where IT-savvy users will be able to leverage the benefits of the facility optimally,” Google https://news247.co.in/news/2011/05/26/Starting-with-Bangalore-Google-to-offer-street-view-of-Indian-cities.html https://news247.co.in/news/2011/05/26/Starting-with-Bangalore-Google-to-offer-street-view-of-Indian-cities.html Thu, 26 May 2011 14:40:30 +0530 Nearly 100 of the companys 500 senior exces have either quit or are looking at newer pastures. Some 40 people, including verticals/ business unit heads and general manager, have already quit the company in the past few weeks. A head-hunting firm in the city has received 52 job applications from https://news247.co.in/news/2011/04/20/Senior-managers-continue-to-quit-Wipro.html https://news247.co.in/news/2011/04/20/Senior-managers-continue-to-quit-Wipro.html Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:38:35 +0530 Yahoo said it would like to focus on Pune to build a sound ecosystem and leverage its platforms to start-ups and entrepreneurs and that it will soon launch a centre of excellence in Bangalore. The company already has an up-and-running Bangalore-based research and development (R&D) centre since ten-odd years and it https://news247.co.in/news/2011/04/07/Yahoo-plans-centre-of-excellence-in-Bangalore.html https://news247.co.in/news/2011/04/07/Yahoo-plans-centre-of-excellence-in-Bangalore.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:10:32 +0530 In that light are you looking at a salary hike to rest the high levels of attrition at this point How are you looking at the overall margin picture The last we saw a salary hike was in February 2010. In between last quarter we had done salary hikes with respect https://news247.co.in/news/2010/11/27/Interview-Suresh-Senapaty--attrition-will-be-back-to-normal-soon.html https://news247.co.in/news/2010/11/27/Interview-Suresh-Senapaty--attrition-will-be-back-to-normal-soon.html Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:31:35 +0530 An independent legal counsel appointed by IT major Wipro has found that lack of internal controls led to the embezzlement committed by one of the former junior employees between November 2006 and December 2009. The legal counsel submitted the probe report last week to the audit committee set up to investigate https://news247.co.in/news/2010/11/27/Wipro-blams-weak-internal-controls-for-fraud.html https://news247.co.in/news/2010/11/27/Wipro-blams-weak-internal-controls-for-fraud.html Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:05:46 +0530 Gopalakrishnan, or ‘Kris’ as he’s called, developed a fascination for gizmos in college, and it’s continued to this day. He uses three smart phones — a Samsung Galaxy android phone, an iPhone 4 and one HTC-made Windows mobile phone. When abroad, Gopalakrishnan uses the Windows mobile phone and within the https://news247.co.in/news/2010/11/27/Kris-Gopalakrishnan-is-a-techie-CEO.html https://news247.co.in/news/2010/11/27/Kris-Gopalakrishnan-is-a-techie-CEO.html Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:52:55 +0530